NEWS

This week: SARAH MIRK tries to wrap her just-out-of-high-school brain around the squabbles within a local union. (Once you've worked somewhere besides Borders and a free newsweekly for retarded homosexuals, Ms. Mirk, you may write something worth reading about union labor.) Elsewhere, ERICA C. BARNETT offers two stories—one on the viaduct (#2,734 in a series), the other on how drivers who accidentally kill a pedestrian should have their licenses revoked forever. No word yet on where she comes down on my revoking-of-journalism-credentials-due-to-excessive-infrastructure-cheerleading idea. ALSO: In the Hall, CounterIntel, In Other News, and Police Beat.

FEATURE: Escape from Thanksgiving

Of the many things The Stranger is decidedly against (common sense, journalistic integrity, child-labor laws, etc.), its bizarre, perhaps psychotic, antifamily stance often grates the most. Case in point: this week's feature package, which purports to be tied to the Thanksgiving holiday, but is little more than another opportunity for the paper's self-hating drug addicts to belittle the backbone of American society, the strong family unit. That the blunderers that be also seize the opportunity to once again promote irresponsible drinking and drug consumption—two things The Stranger is definitely not against—should come as no surprise.